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Courts & crime, 1947

13,050 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 250

All-night Hunt for R.n. Gaol Escapees

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 8

DESPITE an all-night search, five R.N. prisoners, who, yesterday afternoon escaped through the roof of Balmoral detention barracks, are still at large. IT is feared that the escapees may…

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All-night Hunt for R.n. Gaol Escapees

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 8

DESPITE an all-night search, five R.N. prisoners, who, yesterday afternoon escaped through the roof of Balmoral detention barracks, are still at large. IT is feared that the escapees may…

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All-night Hunt for R.n. Gaol Escapees

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 8

DESPITE an all-night search, five R.N. prisoners, who, yesterday afternoon escaped through the roof of Balmoral detention barracks, are still at large. IT is feared that the escapees may…

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Bar Closed By Police

The Sun · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 3

KEMPSEY, Tuesday.--The bar at the Frederickton regatta was closed by police after a brawl in which a detective and a…

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Oakes Murder Case May Be Re-opened

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 6

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--New York Post columnist, Leonard Lyons, says that the Oakes murder case may be reopened at Nassau (Bahamas) in…

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T. J. Ley Murder Trial Hearing Resumed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Jan. 27 (A.A.P.).— The trial of a former New South Wales Minister of Justice, Thomas John Ley, for the murder of John…

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Oakes Murder Case May Be Re-opened

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 6

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--New York Post columnist, Leonard Lyons, says that the Oakes murder case may be reopened at Nassau (Bahamas) in…

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Police Fail To Revive Youth

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 2

Two policemen battled desperately but unsuccessfully yesterday afternoon to revive a youth who had been recovered…

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Police Catch Man In House

The Sun · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 3

Police today surrounded a house in Lenthall-street, Kensington, before entering it and making an arrest…

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Police Fail To Revive Youth

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 2

Two policemen battled desperately but unsuccessfully yesterday afternoon to revive a youth who had been recovered…

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Police Fail To Revive Youth

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 2

Two policemen battled desperately but unsuccessfully yesterday afternoon to revive a youth who had been recovered…

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Police Arrest Two Boys From Home

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 5

Two lads who were granted Christmas leave from Gosford Boys' Home told police yesterday that they had burgled four homes in Sydney recently…

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Police Arrest Boy In Grocer's Shop

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 8

A 14-years-old lad arrested in Goodlands Grocery Store, Hall St., Bondi, early today, told police that he had been living…

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Police Arrest Boy In Grocer's Shop

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 8

A 14-years-old lad arrested in Goodlands Grocery Store, Hall St., Bondi, early today, told police that he had been living…

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Spelling Error Led To Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 27 (A.A.P.).— An Australian ship's steward, Harold Frederick King, 33, stranded in England and desperate…

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Television Display Presented In Court

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 2

New YORK, Tuesday.--The Columbia Broadcasting System brought a television show in color into the Federal Court yesterday to support its contention that color television was better than black and white…

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Police Search For Five R.N. Escapees

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 1

More than 200 police and naval ratings searched throughout the night for five R.N. seamen who escaped from…

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£300 Transfer Story Chalk Pit Murder Evidence by Bank Clerk

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--A bank clerk gave evidence in West London Police Court yesterday concerning the banking accounts of two men charged…

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£300 Transfer Story Chalk Pit Murder Evidence by Bank Clerk

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--A bank clerk gave evidence in West London Police Court yesterday concerning the banking accounts of two men charged…

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Woman Lured Man to London Ex-Minister On Murder Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Monday. --Mrs. Lilian Florence Bruce fold of West London Police Court today how she had lured John McBain Mudie, 35, fo London shortly before his body was…

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